GERMANY: BODIES OF RUSSIAN VICTIMS IN MID AIR COLLISION OVER UEBERLINGEN LEAVE FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AIRPORT BOUND FOR RUSSIA.

Record ID: 588561

  • Title: GERMANY: BODIES OF RUSSIAN VICTIMS IN MID AIR COLLISION OVER UEBERLINGEN LEAVE FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AIRPORT BOUND FOR RUSSIA.
  • Date: 7th July 2002
  • Summary: (W8) FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, GERMANY (JULY 7, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. VARIOUS MV/PAN OF HEARSES DRIVING INTO AIRPORT 4.20 2. ZOOM IN SHOT AIRPORT PERIMETER FENCE WITH RUSSIAN TRANSPORT PLANE IN BACKGROUND 4.31 3. VARIOUS HEARSES ENTERING AIRPORT PAN OF PLANE 4.51 4. VARIOUS OF COFFINS BEING LOADED ONTO TRANSPORT PLANE (4 SHOTS) 5.20 5. SLV: COFFINS BEING LOADED BY FOLK LIFT TRUCK ONTO PLANE 6.02 6. PULL OUT TRUCK ALONGSIDE PLANE WITH COACHES IN FOREGROUND 6.20 7. SV: FIRE TRUCK 6.25 8. VARIOUS: JOURNALISTS WATCHING PLANE TAKE-OFF AT DUSK.(3 SHOTS) 07.26 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 22nd July 2002 13:00
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  • Location: FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVAEO5JY19DTPX16ZCQ8NVVYQMWA
  • Story Text: Thirty three bodies from the midair collision between
    a Bashkirian Airlines Tupolev 154 and a DHL Boeing 757 cargo
    plane earlier this week, have left Friedrichshafen airport
    bound for Russia.



    German officials returned 33 of the recovered bodies
    to Russia on Sunday night (July 7) . Investigators have so far
    identified 37 of the victims.The final two bodies were also
    recovered on Sunday.

    Recovery teams worked across a wide area to find victims'
    remains after Monday night's (July 1) mid-air collision over
    southern Germany last week killing 71 people, including 52
    Russian children. The majority of the wreckage from the
    collision has been recovered and taken to a hangar at
    Friedrichshafen airport, where an examination by experts will
    begin. However, the teams were still searching for body
    parts.

    As the investigation continued, Der Spiegel magazine
    reported that German aviation officials had tried to alert
    Swiss air traffic controllers to the impending collision, but
    could not get through because the Swiss phones were
    malfunctioning.

    The two planes were flying at an altitude of 12,000 metres
    (39,000 feet) above Ueberlingen on the northwest end of Lake
    Constance when they collided.

    There were 69 Russians on board the seven-year-old
    Tupolev. The DHL pilots were a Briton and a Canadian.

    The 33 bodies were transported from the town of
    Ueberlingen to Friedrichshafen airport where they were taken
    aboard a waiting Russian cargo plane for the flight home.

    German investigators continue to analyse the flight
    recorders from two jets. The recorders, known as the black
    boxes, could help determine the cause of the collision.


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